Hilary Baker

Hilary Baker (21 February 1746-25 September 1798) was Mayor of Philadelphia (F) from 1797 to 1798, succeeding Matthew Clarkson and preceding Robert Wharton.

Biography
Hilary Baker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1746, and he worked as a hardware merchant before becoming Clerk of the Quarter Sessions in 1779 and a member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention in 1787. He served as an alderman from 1789 to 1796 and as Mayor from 1797 to 1798, when he died during a yellow fever outbreak. He was the grandfather of Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew.